Bodhidharma
£50.00
Artwork Details
Medium:
Sumi ink
Ships from:
UK
Framing:
Custom
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Hokusai remains one of my favourite Japanese artists - not because of his famous painting "The Great Wave', but because his mastery of the brush allowed him to blend pictorial representation with the rhythmic energy of written characters, which always fascinated me. How can combine strict rules imposed on artists back then and yet offer intense, wavering, and lively calligraphic energy?
Hokusai had a strong interest in painting Daruma, also known as Bodhidharma. Daruma was a revered Buddhist monk from the 5th or 6th century who is considered the patriarch and founder of Zen Buddhism. He painted colossal portraits of the Buddhist monk Daruma using buckets of ink and broom-sized brushes before amazed crowds in 1804 and 1817